X-Git-Url: https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=57ef74c774aad038eaf7b1367fd56afea669fc89;hp=c7e80d8df209fa7ceebfa76acf14cf956ba1e4d9;hb=a816c8dae437106bbf1661304240ff568ae3efef;hpb=493e2f7b3fc309879f561a094fdfc15e5304b3d6 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c7e80d8d..57ef74c7 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3698 2021/08/21 23:25:57 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3732 2021/10/20 22:49:51 tom Exp $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started @@ -46,6 +46,106 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names. Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions; it is not possible to add this information. +20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org + + update release notes + + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD + system to use a current ncurses release. + +20211018 + + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case + a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by + Frank Tkalcevic). + +20211017 + + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in + the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci). + +20211016 + + build-fix for pmake with libtool. + + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up + shellcheck warnings. + + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc + + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual + search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug + (report by Pascal Pignard). + + freeze ABI in ".map" files. + +20211009 + + implement "+m" option in tabs program. + + fill in some details for infoton -TD + + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD + + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD + + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other + than reset/init, e.g., for clear. + + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather + than the last. + + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp, + and smgbp (cf: 20020525). + + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow + special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407). + + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and + non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present + (cf: 20101002). + +20211002 + + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for + buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_"). + + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to + match the documentation. + + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses. + + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when + those are used, rather than the underlying program's name. + + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating + tput-specific portions. + + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather + than binary. + + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from + the other BSDs. + +20210925 + + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD + + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the + "tabs" +m option -TD + + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward + reference of anonymous struct typedef. + + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line. + + minor fixes for tset manpage. + +20210911 + + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7 + + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD + + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD + + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD + + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD + + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD + +20210905 + + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim, + cf: 20210828). + +20210904 + + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by + kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD + + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color + manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4. + + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black). + + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh). + + build-fix for compiling link_test + + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify + use (Debian #993179). + +20210828 + + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis + by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626). + + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list + parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list + (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request). + + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE, + e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for + ncursesw. + + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables. + + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson). + 20210821 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching SVr4 terminfo.